Not to disagree with Bev -- I've had that "deja vu all over again"
feeling when reading "news" -- but, there was a CNN web site article
yesterday about a fresh outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) cases in Asia.
Several deaths.
There was a line in the story something to the effect of "after
several months of no activity...." indicating there had been no cases
to report on in a while....
Remember, we are dealing with dictatorial leaders who do not permit
the bad news to be released for fear of criticism, until the size of
the problem is such that they cannot contain it. Medical personnel
can be arrested for reporting what would be normal daily reports
here. So the journalists may not have been aware. The sick people
took a while to get sick, report to doctors, die, etc., so the fresh
out break is actually several weeks in the making, but the release of
the information that it happened is probably fresher.
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